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  2. Rock Chuck Bullet Swage - Wikipedia

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    Rock Chuck Bullet Swage (later abbreviated RCBS) is a handloading equipment manufacturer operating in Oroville, California. The company originated during the sporting ammunition shortage caused by World War II , became a widely recognized manufacturer of handloading equipment, and has subsequently been purchased by Hodgdon Powder Company .

  3. 7.62mm Thumper - Wikipedia

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    7.62mm Thumper is a barrel specification optimized to run larger bullets out of standard 7.62×39mm cases. [1] Barrels are cut to a standard 7.62×39mm "Russian" chamber but the bore ideally uses a faster 1:8" rifling twist rate in order to stabilize bullets heavier than 200gr at subsonic speeds. [2]

  4. Firearm modification - Wikipedia

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    Firearm modification is commonly done in order to enhance various aspects of the performance of a firearm. Reasons for these modifications can range from cosmetic to functional, and can be simple operations that the owner can perform, or complex operations requiring the services of a gunsmith .

  5. Bulletproofing - Wikipedia

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    For example, the U.S. National Institute of Justice standard 0104.04 for bullet-resistant vests specifies that a Type II vest must not deform clay representing the wearer's body when hit by an 8.0 g (124 gr) 9 mm caliber round nosed full-metal jacket bullet travelling at up to 358 m/s (1175 ft/s); but a Type IIIA vest is needed for protection ...

  6. Sierra Bullets - Wikipedia

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    Before long, they were selling a 53 grain match bullet to the Hollywood Gun Shop. That bullet is now known as the Sierra #1400 53 grain MatchKing. Before long, the company outgrew that facility and rented a large Quonset hut in Rivera, California. They outgrew that facility and built a larger facility in Whittier, California. They also changed ...

  7. Telling bullets from dummy rounds a central issue - AOL

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    Poppell — whose testimony started Thursday afternoon and continued Friday morning — told jurors there are two basic ways to differentiate between a real bullet and a dummy round.

  8. What Bullets Do to Bodies - Highline

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    Goldberg wheeled the monitor over to show me the X-ray image: paper clip and bullet. “Very small,” she said, pointing to the slug, “like a .22.” As so many other patients do, the patient asked the trauma surgeons if they were going to take the bullet out, and the surgeons explained that they fix what the bullet injures, they don’t fix ...

  9. Expanding bullet - Wikipedia

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    Expanding bullets were called Dum-Dum or dumdum after an early British example produced in the Dum Dum Arsenal, near Calcutta, India by Captain Neville Bertie-Clay. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] There were several expanding bullets produced by this arsenal for the .303 British cartridge, including soft-point and hollow-point designs.